Uefa relishes role as judge and jury . . . so Mourinho can go hang

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“MY DAD always believed ‘fight fire with fire’,” Harry Hill, the comedian, said, “which is probably why he was thrown out of the fire brigade.”

In certain instances, though, father Hill had a point. For José Mourinho and Chelsea, this is no time for half-measures. Faced with Uefa’s blanket refusal to indulge in anything resembling a fair, unprejudiced hearing, the club have no option but to arrive in Switzerland this month, guns blazing, with a legal brigade bigger than the first-team squad, ready for war. No apologies for starting today’s column with a gag, either. You have to look to